When it comes to recycling, your family can do more than the weekly ritual of putting cans, bottles, and paper into the curbside bins. Recycling your unwanted mobile phones is one of the easiest things you can do for the environment. Mobile phones contain various metals—including gold, silver, copper, and palladium—that can be recycled. The energy savings from recycling just one mobile phone could power a laptop for 44 hours.1 Your family probably has a drawer littered with hand-me-down mobile phones that aren’t being used, so free up some space while doing something good for the planet. It’s a winning combination for the community and the environment.
Check back often to see how much progress we’ve made towards our goal of recycling 1 million phones this year.
Bring your phone to a T-Mobile® store or mail it to us for free.
1Using the Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator Version 2 (http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/resources/bencalc.htm), calculated the energy savings of recycling 1 cell phone, which equals 2.21kWh, and using iWarm (http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/tools/iwarm/index.htm) calculated the amount of delivered electricity equivalent necessary to power a laptop.
T-Mobile® and the WNBA are partnering to help the environment this summer, with a special emphasis on encouraging families to recycle unwanted mobile phones.
During the annual Green Week in the first week of June, T-Mobile and the entire WNBA family teamed up to focus attention on protecting the environment. Players wore special Green Week shooting shirts and warmed up with Green Week basketballs. Activities included auctions that helped support environmental preservation organizations and hands-on community service projects. As part of Green Week in California, Los Angeles Sparks players and coaches joined T-Mobile and the Heal the Bay organization to help clean up Santa Monica Beach.
Go Green Nights in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City fans enjoy a great night of family fun while doing something positive for the environment by recycling a phone in a T-Mobile bin. Thanks to all the WNBA fans participating in our drive to recycle over 1 million cell phones in 2010.
Los Angeles Sparks
6/5 (Saturday) vs. Seattle Storm
6/8 (Tuesday) vs. Phoenix Mercury
6/13 (Sunday) vs. Minnesota Lynx
7/6 (Tuesday) vs. Phoenix Mercury
8/6 (Friday) vs. Tulsa Shock
Seattle Storm
6/1 (Tuesday) vs. Atlanta Dream
6/25 (Friday) vs. Indiana Fever
7/25 (Sunday) vs. Tulsa Shock
8/7 (Saturday) vs. Tulsa Shock
Chicago Sky
6/8 (Tuesday) vs. New York Liberty
6/25 (Friday) vs. Washington Mystics
7/16 (Friday) vs. Los Angeles Sparks
New York Liberty
6/11 (Friday) vs. Atlanta Dream
6/18 (Friday) vs. Seattle Storm
7/18 (Sunday) vs. Indiana Fever
8/14 (Saturday) vs. Phoenix Mercury
In June, T-Mobile® and Live Nation® joined together to encourage cell phone recycling. Music fans brought unwanted phones for recycling to Live Nation venues around the country. Thanks to everyone who joined in T-Mobile's effort to recycle over 1 million phones in 2010. Check back soon to find out how many phones were collected through Live Nation.
A sustainable community is the goal of Green Festival, a series of events around the country that bring together the best in green living. T-Mobile® was a sponsor of the Green Festival held in Chicago in May and collected nearly 800 cell phones for recycling. Over 2,000 cell phone recycling bags were distributed from the T-Mobile booth.
With 125 authors, leaders and educators, instructional workshops, activities for kids, and informative films, the Green Festival is a vibrant gathering of everything eco-friendly. Make sure to bring along an unwanted cell phone for recycling at the T-Mobile booth at the Green Festival in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 23-24) or San Francisco (Nov. 5-7). For more information on the festival, visit www.greenfestivals.org.
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